The Tidewater Initiative

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly accessible. This event features Marcus Rediker, author of most recently Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea. We’ll celebrate this new volume by […]

Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below."  This event is co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Tidewater initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. The JHU community and the […]

Thursday, September 25 5:30–7:00 pm Baltimore Museum of Art | Meet at the Front Steps of the Merrick Entrance  Experience an unforgettable evening with celebrated artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña as she leads a participatory performance and reads from her new work, The Deer Book / Libro Venado (Radius Books, 2024). Joined by award-winning poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky, Vicuña offers […]